Working on putting on the news page and updating the game record, but Sudeki is GOLD.

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July 15, 2003

Get Ready to Summon Your Spirit Strike -- Sudeki Goes Gold

Microsoft Game Studios today announced that Sudeki, the exclusive Xbox® roleplaying game (RPG), has gone gold and is scheduled to ship to stores on July 20 in North America for an estimated retail price of $49.95 (U.S.). Sudeki will be available in Europe in August. Developed in the U.K. by Climax Group, Sudeki immerses players in a world of real-time, fast-action combat, where they'll need to use their wits, magic and powerful Spirit Strikes to defeat other-worldly forces.

Four heroes -- a sultry wizardress, a soaring gunslinger, a powerful swordsman and a dark huntress -- are about to be hurtled over the edge in a flight into a world of darkness and evil. Sudeki pushes the limits of what an RPG can be by providing bigger worlds, more powerful heroes and sexier heroines; all set in the context of fantastical real-time action. In a world ripped apart by deceit, Sudeki players become heroes on a twisting path of betrayal, real-time combat and unbelievable magic.

Microsoft Game Studios is a leading worldwide publisher and developer of games for the Xbox® video game system and Windows® and online platforms. Comprising a network of top developers, Microsoft Game Studios is committed to creating innovative and diverse games for Windows (http://www.microsoft.com/games/), including such franchises as Age of Empires®, Flight Simulator and Zoo Tycoon™; Xbox (http://www.xbox.com/), including such franchises as Halo®, Project Gotham Racing and MechAssault; and Zone.com (http://www.zone.com/), the official games channel for the MSN® network and home to such hits as Bejeweled and OutSmart™.

I'm considering getting this game after playing the demo. If the demo is a good representative of what the whole game is like, it'll warrant a purchase. Hopefully there aren't any huge glaring flaws that spoil the game.

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Basically it seems the combat is great, but the rest of the game is pretty lackluster. I also guess the story doesn't really kick in until about 10 hours into the game (granted, KOTOR's story didn't kick in for a bit either) and you fight bosses 1-on-1 instead of with the party. From the IGN review the ending is also very lame, but they didn't want to spoil the story.

I wasn't expecting much from Sudeki since Fable is the Microsoft produced RPG that gets all the attention and, unlike Fable, Sudeki's appearance at E3 2003 didn't set the world on fire. However, I will say Fable had better be pretty darn good because I think a lot is riding on it from both Lionhead (Big Blue Box) and Microsoft's perspective.

I could have sworn someone told me that IGN was one of the offenders. Or maybe it's because during my meeting with IGN at E3 this year when they were showing me their nifty little Gamer demographics system which was predicting that Driv3r was going to be a huge hit.

Not like I would know - I haven't hit that site since that whole Mcdonalds fiasco. What was it the McGriddle? That's a level of sell-out beyond my ability to comprehend.

but then again as Doc Holliday said "It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds."

Not like I would know - I haven't hit that site since that whole Mcdonalds fiasco. What was it the McGriddle? That's a level of sell-out beyond my ability to comprehend.

I think it was the McGriddle incident that put the final nail in their credibility. Besides that, they devote a huge amount of the viewable screen to full-page ads. I'm actually surprised IGN posted their Catwoman reviews (4.0) when the entire main page is a giant add for the game.

Just when you started to think there might be hope for a movie to game conversion.

IMHO - all they would have had to do to make a big selling game - is some simple little 2d scroller that unlocked some very choice pics and movie clips of Halle from movies such as Swordfish, Monster's Ball, and of course her in that Catwoman Costume. :wink:

I mean really - I'm gonna go see the movie, but I have no problem in admitting that I'm really only going to see Halle in that costume.

So how do you pronounce this game? I'd like to not sound like an idiot when I go and ask for it. I'm thinking its: Su-deck-eee. Any ideas?

I'd say it's either pronounced that way or Soo-de-KI with the accent on the last syllable and a long I sound. It would rhyme with "In your eye".I've always said it the first way, but I think the second one sounds cooler.

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